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Hey,..."who ever you are",...I've been around the world's block and visited a few "Guitar Centers" for more decades than you. "DOES NOT MAKE ME AN EXPERT!," P.S , (also did a stretch opening for MSG🤪🤛) Sooo, "WHERE'S YOUR CREDENTIALS BITCH?"

I think Glenn is mostly bang on in his claims in the context he makes them in. My only issue with him, but also many other "realist" youtubers, is their tactic of arguing from a particular easily defended high point of their choice, in his case it's the "modern high gain recorded metal". To someone who's musical interest is quite a bit broader their conclusions are unsatisfactory and often times very clearly wrong, which makes people pissed off I guess -- and that I suspect is quite a deliberate effect used for grabbing attention on the platform. It all feels exactly like that old car commercial where a measly Citroen 2CV is said to be FASTER THAN A FERRARI, with an asterisk explaining "Traveling flat out at 71.5 mph the Citroen 2CV will easily overtake the Ferrari Mondial traveling at 65 mph"

Yeah, folks are NOT "listening" to Glenn when he goes on his rants about PUs and amps and yadiyada. And they forget Glenn is talking about sound in the studio, and super-analyzing the audio going thru the board. Ultimately, his entire pitch is about bang-for-the-buck: do you really think an overpriced Gibson Les Paul is going to "sound" much different from a decent Harley Benton, once you run it thru tons of distortion and amplification, in the studio? Playability, action, finish, etc...those are all different things, and vary by guitar, and at the end of the day, a player's comfort level with Gibby might be better than a Harley Benton, just because they spent years playing one vs. the other (I have this issue all the time)...but thats highly subjective, and he tends to not have quite as harsh opinions about that...but boy, don't question him about high-gain studio sound...its his entire living, and his anger at guitar fanboys who think X or Y guitar is the perfect sounding axe (but lack anything other than subjective evidence for it)...is entirely justified.

I have a 79 sg that I bought brand new...never noticed neck dive with it..I honestly wasn't aware of neck dive until the internet..😂

Well with nothing else changed, the difference I hear with high gain tone between my mayones (seymour duncan) and my kiesel (kiesel lithium PUs) is notable enough to make me choose one or the other depending of the piece I'll play.

Brilliant review. Hello from London.

I guess I don't need to feel so bad about my probably Fake EMG's lol

I don't think Fricker is inaccurate, I think people just don't like him because he tends to shout everything and nobody really likes being shouted at all of the time.

This dude is unbearable. If you, blindfolded, can't hear the difference between a Bill &Beck Lawrence L500 and a Suhr SSH+ on clean, it's your problem not mine. EL84 convey way less lows than EL34. 6L6 and EL34 doesn't give you same results etc ... I have different guitars too with different wood, can hear huge difference. TH-cam is a mess "so called experts" telling you what to think. Even for weightlifting... Omg, I won't even go there.

I can’t stand the guy

Your sound is in your hands.😆

um...duh, when it's cranked so high and distorted with pedals and high gain...none of this gear really matters. That being said I detest. Being yelled and preached to by anyone, so I cannot stand the guy.

The Bigsby counters neck dive. Lots of weight in the back compared to a non-Bigsby. I have an SGS3. 3 pickups and one of those side-trems. No neck dive. I also have an SG with two pickups and no trem and it dives like a penguin.

Hey Clark, thank you so much for this video! As a former roadie, I cannot emphasise enough what you said round the 10.10 mark: before a show, especially when there is a changeover, you (as guitar tech) gotta be swift - so in 99.9% of all cases, you'll grab that guitar, and make sure the signal is consistent and it's plugged in the right way, meaning, the sound engineer get's positive affirmation everything is working as expected. You do not need to turn up that volume knob fully, you do not need to have all the EQ settings up on the FOH: it's only important to get that signal through. Now, you do want to make a quick short-line check, meaning you check if the pedals work and - again - the signal is coming through. I would say, before a show you are more likely to hear 60% of what's it going to sound, than the full experience later on.

In high gain, pickups don't change tone a lot, but they do change the "tightness" of the sound. My Jackson RR7X with Seymour pickups sounds distinctly more mushy compared to my Ibanez RG7420 with stock pickups plugged into the same signal chain.

Glenn can be a bonehead..... His failure to get a good sound out of a Marshall and throwing it off the roof was stupid and all on him. Disappointing dumbass move....

Glen is the type of dude who has never made a female orgasm.

Tone is your end to end signal chain. Technique is in your fingers. That's the hill I will die on :)

Remember him insulting people for not getting the gov injection, I never went back to his channel again.

name drop much wow haha

Nope, he's a complete tool

I hate TH-cam sometimes

Whats funny about this Fricker guy is that he has figured out that mic placement and swapping the speakers makes a big difference in tone. But he hasnt figured out yet that the CABINET WOOD does so as well.

Congratulations for the clickbait.

Aha, ok, so you basically agree with those guys. So where is the controversy your thumbnail and video title are promising? I guess there is none, just another clickbait video. Thanks for nothing. …Btw, I also agree with everything you and those guys say. Shocking!! 🥱🎈

Are you just bragging about all the crap you own? Get to the point.

Late to the party I know but you are definitely on point. I play Western Swing, Jazz, Grateful Dead - very clean stuff for the most part. Glenn's opinions are very much spot on from my experience. You just have to listen to what he's actually saying.

I can see what you mean about the pickups not making much of a difference but when it comes to harmonics, they certainly do. Using single coils as an example. Out of my Squier Strat (cheap ceramic pickups), I can’t get harmonics out of the pickups easily by any means. Using my 1987 Fender Strat with Vintage Alnico pickups, I can easily get pinch harmonics, even in the neck position. For humbuckers, they matter a ton as well. I have a Seymour DD in my Les Paul and that gets pinch harmonics more consistently than my stick Ibanez pickups. Although not by much, it does matter.

While I agree with you about many of your points, for the average musician, the entire spectrum of sound that they hear, I believe they associate with "tone". In any case, I had the same experience. In this case, I was the "tech". I setup the amp, the pedals everything, I played and jammed on the setup and sounded exactly like me. Then a super famous guitarist came in, picked it up and BOOM, the "tone" i.e. sound was there. I heard the massive change right there and then. That's when I knew that the "equipment" would never get me there all the way.

Nice. 🎸🎸🎸

A friend who plays black metal told that his secret for dialing his amp was searching for the white lion's "broken heart" guitar tone and then with the whole band everything sounded just right

Came for the roundhouse kicks, stayed for the tone

Wow!!

Anyone who talks like Donald Trump has the pea brain of Donald Trump.

Everything Glenn yells about is correct through the lens of very high gain. Take the gain away and he is less right. He also yells about that particular fact as well, perhaps it is you sir who is not paying attention.

Glenn is a douchebag over the top hack!

Pete Green is the one who really drove the tone is in the hands thing to me. While real exclusive with his guitars, he never seemed at all particular about his amp. Seen him play thru most every amp available in the day, even a solid state WEM rig, and yet he always got great tone.

He's def right about speakers. I've been on a Marshall sv20 head lately and a variety of single 12 cabs is literally like having a bunch of different amps.

When he made fun of Jesus I was no longer a fan

it's wild to see a video of a guy sitting in a recording studio and yet somehow the audio is so bad I have to comment on it

Hi Clark. Hope you are well and doing 👍 great . It's a funny thing about what people perceive tone to be , some guitarists will chase this illusive tone till the day they die and never find it, Tone is the resonances that individual musicians perceive and feel at a specific period in time through the feedback of their instruments. It can't always be reproduced exactly unless it is frozen by capturing it on some recording device. Every time you try to get an exact copy/ verbatim, replica of that specific tone that you have registered in your head it will be modified slightly by the listening 🎧 environment. Even when you listen back to your verbatim recording your listening environment may have been adjusted. Anyway Have Fun chasing your tone😊. Best Regards 😃. John , keeping on Rockin it.

Glen likes to do comparisons, and for some reason gets a lot of hate. He's a pretty open guy, so I'm sure he'd be interested in a conversation.

What is ridiculous is when he compares natural nitro lacquer finishes on gibsons to $200 guitars covered in plastic-- He shits on the gibson finish for not being as "perfect" as the $200 model-- That is like going into Kmart grabing a plastic table and claiming it is better because the finish is "cleaner" than that of the local craftsman's table with the french polish- IT IS NONSENSE.

Glen puts audio and the graphs side by side for comparisons. You have a greater truth than that? No like you said, you have opinions, glen gives data. Data is fact.

Great video. Straight to the point. Also, Jim lill's channel is a must watch as mentioned. He's a clever man

I find him entertaining, but for sure he is loud. There is Glenn Gould, and then there is Glenn Loud.

Glenn’s a lot of things, but I’m pretty sure he’s not a Boomer.

Cool!

Picks affect the transient big time;)

I have a pair of your Action Jeans, Love Them!